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List of American Airlines accidents and incidents. As of March 2019, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of an Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [ 1][ 2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 ...
American Airlines Flight 1 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York International (Idlewild) Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. During take-off on the March 1, 1962 flight, the Boeing 707 rolled over and crashed into Jamaica Bay in New York ...
5. American Airlines Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City to Las Américas International Airport, Santo Domingo. On November 12, 2001, the Airbus A300B4-605R flying the route crashed into the neighborhood of Belle Harbor on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens ...
American Airlines Flight 320. American Airlines Flight 320 was a scheduled flight between Chicago Midway Airport and New York City 's LaGuardia Airport. On February 3, 1959, the Lockheed L-188 Electra performing the flight crashed into the East River during its descent and approach to LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. [ 1] The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in Park Slope, Brooklyn ...
American Airlines Flight 96 (AA96/AAL96) was a regular domestic flight operated by American Airlines from Los Angeles to New York via Detroit and Buffalo. On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off above Windsor, Ontario, after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor ...
4. American Airlines Flight 383 was a nonstop flight from New York City to Cincinnati on November 8, 1965. [ 1]: 1 The aircraft was a Boeing 727, with 57 passengers, and 5 crew on board. [ 1]: 1 The aircraft crashed on final approach to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, United States.
The crash was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in United States history to date, and would remain so until the 1979 crash of American airlines flight 191. The victims included American Basketball Association player Wendell Ladner, a member of the 1974 champion New York Nets, [4] and Iveson B. Noland, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ...